I ran out of the last roll of 13.3" film here today, so I replaced the roll with a 12" roll that was sitting on the shelf. I changed the spindle ends to center the 12" roll instead of 13.3" rolls, advanced it, then changed the width to 12.0 in the cassette manager in the Harlequin RIP. I went to image some film and the animation that usually shows the progress of each page as it is getting imaged does't change, and the length that is fed stays the same on the screen in thew RIP. The image setter reads "Printing", and film is advancing, but it doesn't end without me resetting it, and I can't cut or anything from the rip. I shut everything down and re-booted, and the same thing happens. I did finally see an error message on the QS itself for a moment that said "Filter Fault", but that was the only error and it went away. Does anyone know what is going on or what I can do to get it working? Thanks.

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When calibrating a Heidleburg image setter for negative film using the Harlequin RIP, what am I supposed to do as far as calibrating for negatives? I have options in the page setup for the 2540/150lpi to check or uncheck negative film, and I have options in the Print Calibration window to Manage calibration as Positive %dot or Negative %dot as well as a box to check for negative media. The notes I have from the last prepress tech say to do all the calibration as positive and positive %dot, then to only check the negative media to image the film after calibration is complete. This doesn't seem right to me, and it seems like all the halftones and quarter tone screens image darker than they should be. At my last job I only worked with RIPping direct to a QM-DI and a Trendsetter CTP plate maker, so I'm not confident in what I'm doing with negative film calibration. Does anyone know what I should be doing to calibrate for negatives, as far as imaging and measuring %dot with the intent of running negs and not positive film? Thanks in advance for any help, and I apologize if this post is confusing.

I've been searching all morning with no real luck. I guess we used to use Acrobat 5.0.5, in OS X 10.3 w/ Classic running, to create editable forms with embedded licensed fonts. Now I'm trying to do the same with Acrobat 5.0.5 in OS 10.5.8 but I'm getting licensing errors. Is there any way to work around restricted font embedding in Acrobat, either 5.0.5, 8, or 9 in OS X 10.5.8 so customers can edit fillable fields using Gill Sans Bold? I've noticed that there seems to be a difference depending on whether it's TT or T1, but that doe's help me since there will be several other restricted fonts that I will probably need. Thanks.

I just started working at a new printer that has a Konica Minolta Bizhub Pro C500 run with Creo IC-301Print Controller. It's pay per click for color and for gray, and has a check box that lets you decide which when you print a document. I need to print a book that has both color pages and B&W pages, and I want to do it at once so they are collated, but I can't find out how, or if it's even possible. Does anyone know about this? Thanks